Feb 16, 2024 · A hollowed-out column three feet in diameter was placed 485 feet underground with the bomb inside. A metal cap was placed on the top of the column. The Fireball of Priscilla shot fired as a part of the Operation Plumbbob series.

Dec 19, 2022 · Some believe a manhole cover was launched into space during a 1957 nuclear test, becoming one of the first pieces of space debris.

Feb 25, 2025 · Unless you shot it from inside a spacecraft (which would be a terrible idea), you wouldn't hear the explosion, due to the lack of air in space to carry the sound waves. And instead of a wispy vapor trail like you see in the movies, the smoke would just expand in a sphere from the tip of the barrel.

May 4, 2022 · SpinLaunch is striving to build a scaled-up version of its "kinetic launch system"—one capable of hurling objects into space. A view of the test launch vehicle as it’s shot out from the...

May 27, 2020 · Just over 30 years after Crippen and Young’s landmark flight, Rex Walheim and three other astronauts climbed aboard the final Shuttle mission. Walheim flew on the craft three times, and still...

Mar 3, 2023 · Robert Brownlee was on the Operation Plumbbob team that launched an object in space before Sputnik. They put a manhole cover above a nuke underground, and the explosion shot the iron cap into...

Oct 21, 2023 · Yes, if you shoot a bullet into space gravity will bring it back down. The only exception is if it's moving faster than escape velocity (11 km/s) after it leaves the atmosphere. In that case it will escape Earth forever, like the Voyager and other interplanetary probes.

Jan 16, 2010 · John Hunter wants to shoot stuff into space with a 3,600-foot gun. And he’s dead serious—he’s done the math. Making deliveries to an orbital outpost on a rocket costs $5,000 per pound, but...

4 days ago · The Crew-10 astronauts rode into orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Roughly 10 minutes after liftoff, the booster’s reusable first stage successfully returned to Earth, landing back at the ...

Aug 23, 2023 · As of August 22, researchers at the University of Hyogo, in Kobe, Japan, led by Shinya Narusawa, have deployed a 210-foot-wide antenna dish in the hopes that they might catch this otherworldly...